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Human Quotes

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

A human being is a part of the whole ... optical delusion of his consciousness.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

I realized then that if something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and working capacity gets enhanced manifold.

History has proven that those who dare to imagine the impossible are the ones who break all human limitations.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.